Venus coordinated campaign
This wiki is provided as a tool to share information and schedules for the coordinated ground-based campaigns in support of ESA/Venus Express, JAXA/Akatsuki and Venus exploration. Please feel free to complete and modify the attached table according to the campaign progress and your proposed observations. - TW
What's New ?
October 2011 - Includes DPS/EPSC Oct. 6 meeting minutes, a new area for DPS/EPSC virtual poster session, and a new section for the 2012 transit of Venus - T.W.
June 2011 - Added files 2010_Campaign_5.pdf and .jpg. Now includes coordination summary up to June-July 2011. - T.W.
June 2011 - now includes planning overview poster for Jan 2012 - April 2013. - C.W.
Nov. 21, 2010 - Scheduled ground-based observations updated. Includes MTP 63-64 planned campaign 25 Feb – 15 March 2011. - T.W.
Circumstances of the Venus coordinated campaign
Scheduled ground-based observations
- Ground-based campaign, Jul. 2010 - Jan. 2012,
- Editable Google spreadsheet for detailed observing circumstances
- 2010 | Detailed observing circumstances (Editable Google spreadsheet)
- Circumstances of Venus observation from Earth, 2010-2014
HST observations
- Venus observing by HST
VEx - ground-based coordination files
- VEx science operations, Jul. 2010 - Jan. 2012, VSOC team :
- VEx science operations, Jan. 2012 - April 2013, VSOC team :
- SOIR Files:
This file lists all SOIR observations made from the beginning of Venus operations (April 2006) until September 2010.
For further details, contact the SOIR Principal Investigator: Ann-Carine Vandaele <A-C.Vandaele@aeronomie.be>
These files describe SOIR solar occultation opportunities in the period 30/7/2010 - 25/8/2011 and 1/1/2012-31/12/2012 respectively. SOIR occultations allow measurement of gas abundances and temperatures in the 80-150 km altitude region.
For further details, contact SOIR Principal Investigator: Ann-Carine Vandaele <A-C.Vandaele@aeronomie.be>.
- VeRa Files:
This file descibes all VeRa radio occultations carried out in the period 1/7/2006 - 2/6/2010.
For further information contact the VeRa team: Martin Paetzold <Martin.Paetzold@uni-koeln.de>, Bernd Hauesler <Bernd.Haeusler@unibw.de>, and Silvia Tellmann <tellmann@geo.uni-koeln.de>
This file describes the future opportunities for Radio occultations in the upcoming occultation seasons in January 2011 - January 2012. File kindly provided by Stefan Remus, ESAC.
For further information contact the VeRa team: Martin Paetzold <Martin.Paetzold@uni-koeln.de>, Bernd Hauesler <Bernd.Haeusler@unibw.de>, and Silvia Tellmann <tellmann@geo.uni-koeln.de>.
Map of observatory sites and telescopes
Sites and telescopes used for ground-based observations, with a link to their instruments.
- 2010 Venus Coordinated Campaign, Telescopes sites (editable Google map)
<googlemap version="0.9" lat="5.266008" lon="81.5625" type="terrain" zoom="2" controls="large"> http://www.lesia.obspm.fr/venus-atm/2010venus.kml </googlemap>
Detailed instrumental caracteristics
Ground-based telescopes involved and their instrumentation
- Sunspot Astronomy & Visitor Center
- Observatorio SOAR
- Observatoire du Pic du Midi de Bigorre
- Osservatorio Astronomico della Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta
- South African Astronomical Observatory
- Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)
- Hanle Observatory
- 4 TAOS robotic
- Naroyo Observatory
- Naroyo 1.6-m
- Siding Spring Observatory
- 1 m McLellan
- MOA 1.8-m
- 0.6-m Optical Craftsmen
- 0.6-m Boller & Chivens
- Mauna Kea Observatory
- Haleakala Observatory
- THIS Tuneable Heterodyne Infrared Spectrometer
used at the:
- - McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope on Kitt Peak in Arizona
- - IRTF on Mauna Kea Hawaii
- HIPWAC Heterodyne Instrument for Planetary Wind And Composition at IRTF
Venus Express instruments
- SPICAV/SOIR : Ultraviolet and Infrared Atmospheric Spectrometer
Atmospheric spectrometry by star or Sun occultation
UV 0.11 - 0.3 µm R ~ 300
IR 0.7 - 1.7 µm R ~ 1300
SOIR 2.3 - 4.2 µm R ~ 15000
- VeRa : Venus Radio Science Experiment
Radio sounding of atmosphere
- VIRTIS : Ultraviolet/Visible/Near-Infrared mapping spectrometer
Spectrographic mapping of atmosphere and surface
- VIRTIS-M mapping spectrometer
Vis 0.25 - 1.0 µm R ~ 100 - 200 ( IR 1 - 5 µm R ~ 100 - 200 )
- VIRTIS-H High-res
2 - 5 µm R ~ 1000 - 2000
- VMC : Venus Monitoring Camera
Ultraviolet and visible imaging
Filters :
UV 0.365 µm
Vis 0.513 µm
Near - IR1 0.965 µm
Near - IR2 1.010 µm
More about the Venus Express Instruments
Akatsuki instruments
Akatsuki successfully launched at 6:58:22 a.m. on May 21 (Japan Standard Time) !
More about VCO/Akatsuki mission
- IR1 : 1-micron Camera
Low stratus, vapor, active volcanism
1.01 µm cloud (day-night), surface (nightside)
- IR2 : 2-micron Camera
Low stratus, trace gasses, zodiacal light
1.73, 2.26, 2.32 (near-IR) 2.02 (CO2), 1.65 µm
- UVI : Ultraviolet Imager
Cloud-top ultraviolet absorber, SO2
283, 365 nm SO2 - UV absorber (dayside)
- LIR : Longwave Infrared Camera
Cloud-top temperature distribution
10 µm cloud top (day/nightside)
- LAC : Lightning and Airglow Camera
Lightening flash, high-stratus airglow emission
Filters 777, 557, 553, 558, 630 nm O2/O airglow (night) lightning (night)
More about the Akatsuki Instruments
Transit of Venus, June 5-6, 2012
Coordination meetings / meeting sessions
- First JSPS/PHC Sakura meeting on coordinated observations in support to VEx and Akatsuki, ISAS, Sagamihara Campus, February 23-25, 2010.
- Venus Conference, Aussois (France), 20-26 June 2010
- « After-Aussois Venus 2010 » workshop: 1st strategic workshop on Coordinated ground-based measurements and modeling of the Venus atmosphere, Paris, June 28-29, 2010
- 2010 VEXAG International Workshop: Venus, Our Closest Earth-like Planet, Madison (USA), 30 August - 2 September 2010
- 2010 CFHT Users Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan, November 16-18, 2010
- Second JSPS/PHC Sakura meeting on coordinated observations in support to VEx and Akatsuki, University of Tokyo, Space science building, December 3, 2010.
Other links
The Venus Exploration Analysis Group, established in 2005, is NASA's community-based forum designed to provide scientific input and technology development plans for planning and prioritizing the exploration of Venus over the next several decades
(Between 23 May and 9 June 2007)
The Venus ground-based image Active Archive (VAA) allows you to upload and retrieve ground-based Venus observations obtained in infrared, visual or ultraviolet light. The aim of this archive is to complement the Venus Express (VEX) spacecraft observations of Venus with worldwide ground-based images to allow for continuous monitoring of the planet.
